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Potential evolutionary trade‐off between feeding and stability in Cambrian cinctan echinoderms

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Reconstructing the function and behaviour of extinct groups of echinoderms is problematic because there are no modern analogues for their aberrant body plans. Cinctans, an enigmatic group of Cambrian echinoderms, exemplify this problem: their asymmetrical body plan differentiates them from all living species. Here, we used computational fluid dynamics to analyse the functional performance of cinctans without assuming an extant comparative model. Three‐dimensional models of six species from ac...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1111/pala.12495

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Division:
GLAM
Department:
Natural History Museum
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6598-6534
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
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Volume:
63
Issue:
5
Pages:
689-701
Publication date:
2020-06-30
Acceptance date:
2020-04-17
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EISSN:
1475-4983
ISSN:
0031-0239
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1100552
Local pid:
pubs:1100552
Deposit date:
2020-04-17

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